---
type: "Bill"
title: "Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service."
description: "Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 2053"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2053 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Younger"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f5e3e23-9dd9-429d-a73c-e515506d6d95"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/House_authors/Dearing.xml"
source_hash: "c2f9a5550afede027b53e0f55752f98e982847b5a49d072a92f1d5d6658de1d6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
---

# Mississippi SB 2053 (2019) — Institutions of higher learning/community colleges; require the award of educational credits for military training or service.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2001-2099/SB2053SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Younger — primary (person)
- Dearing — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(11th) — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson_(32nd) — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Massey — cosponsor (person)
- McDaniel — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons_(12th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-08T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-02-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Universities and Colleges `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-13T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-21T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2019-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f5e3e23-9dd9-429d-a73c-e515506d6d95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).